(06-25-2013, 05:56 PM)Desphiria Wrote: Welll, this sounds like an interesting little linkshell, I may join it too! It could be fun, but Iza's gonna end up being a Arcanist first so I hope that'd be okay. I can't wait to see your website guys!
To clarify, I'm planning on the crafting/trading guild to be just the 'official' front of the linkshell. As in, there will be a significant story and plotline involved with Tales of Hydaelyn. The reason for taking a sort of trade company approach is that it really gives us an excuse in-character to travel a lot, to see a lot of different things. There will be plenty of fighting and adventuring to be had along this story, so non-crafters shouldn't be pushed away from this group!
As for Arcanist in particular though, they'd be very welcome as they could be good with record-keeping and all that good stuff.
(06-26-2013, 07:44 AM)Viper Wrote: Is this going to be a linkshell, or a free company as well? I ask because I need to start pairing down my choices a bit and kind of decide where I'm going to be going. Linkshells I guess I can have a good many of, but I think Free Companies you can only belong to one right?
Free Companies are yes, something that you can only join one of, and you can be members of many linkshells. I'm still trying to determine how to approach the Free Company aspect of this. If Tales of Hydaelyn doesn't form its own unique Free Company, it will be associated with an RP friendly one consisting of mostly members from this group, as well as some friends I have coming from XI from a social linkshell I had there, which was known as Returners. So a free company will sprout up as either unique to Tales of Hydaelyn, or as Returners, but in both cases there would be some RP around the Free Company side of things. In the case of the latter though, there'd likely be a good amount of OOC activity as well for progression-wise stuff in addition to the RP focus.
Regarding what this membership pool might look like, its difficult to say because at present I believe I am the only person with a 1.0 character that will be part of the formation of this Free Company. Which is good news for new players, since most of the people you'll be playing with will be right there with you.
I do, however, want to keep the Free Company aspect separate enough from the focus of the RP group so as to not push away people from roleplaying with our group who aren't a part of our free company, especially since you can only choose one group to go with. That would really limit who could join us. So I suppose the summary is: we're going to have some form of free company associated with ToH, but I can't comment as of yet how much of that with be IC vs. OOC. Either way, it wouldn't be a super critical part of the group so as to not make people with different free companies feel left out.
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